The anti-Semitic column by John O’Donnell, Washington correspondent of the New York Daily News, which the News tried to explain away Saturday in an editorial declaring that it gave its columnists "full Leeway," came in for further attack last night.
A meeting of 1,000 delegates to the Metropolitan Council of B’nai B’rith demanded that the News take steps "to rectify the wrong done" by O’Donnell, when he charged that Gen. Patten was dismissed from his command as a result of a Jewish conspiracy. In a resolution adopted at the meeting O’Donnell was denounced for having made "flagrantly anti-Semitic and completely unfounded charges, which constituted a serious reflection on the patriotism of all Americans of Jewish faith," and which constituted "an attack on the integrity of the President. Gen. Eisenhower and a rank injustice to Gen. Patton.
The New York Hotel Association, meanwhile, was urged by the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to bar meetings of "dangerous subversive groups which adopt a camouflage of religious or patriotic terminology."
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